Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute (TIME, May 5), intense interest has been excited among distinguished visitors to the show by three portraits: Miss Margaret Kahri? by Ignacio Zuloaga depicts the American girl in a Spanish costume and shawl against one of those haunting landscapes used as backgrounds by this artist. Portrait of My Mother by Malcolm Purcell shows a filial tenderness somewhat reminiscent of Whistler's famous portrait of his mother in its pose and lighting, although Purcell has used a landscape background for this interior subject. Sir William Orpen's Portrait of Richard F. Knoedler is the most academic...
Benito replied: "The fate of Duse, whom, a year ago, I offered a pension, so that such a great artist might not leave Italy, has affected me grievously. Immediately upon being informed of her tragic death, I telegraphed Ambassador Caetani to proceed forthwith to Pittsburgh and, on behalf of the Italian Government, make the necessary arrangements to bring the body to Italy at the cost of the State...
Second prize ($1,000) went to Giovanni Romagnoli of Bologna, Italy, for his After the Bath. He is the youngest artist to win so important a prize at Pittsburgh, this being the first time any of his work has been shown in this country...
...first this young woman (a music teacher) is gauche, inept, stumbling amid polished floors and brilliant conversation. Astonishingly she sprouts wings. One talk with an aesthetic artist, and she decides to liberate her soul with a thump on the keyboard. She tosses off her inhibitions and a Chopin scherzo simultaneously. Result?she walks off with the fascinated Willie from under the very nose of a voluptuous vampire. It is a tribute to the power of ten-finger exercises...
...from home, handling sentiment with veracity and putting the color of conviction upon the butterfly who bursts from her homespun cocoon. Miss Crothers, moreover, does not allow her to sacrifice a career on the alter of Willie's toothpaste. Louise Closser Hale (oldfashioned mother), Merle Maddern (vampire), Alan Brooks (artist) and Richard Sterling (Willie) are others who are sufficient unto their parts. The producers?Equity Players...